Adam Ekberg (b. 1975, Boston, MA) is an artist whose calculated performances intersect with photography’s documentary potential. Through means simple and complex, his interventions, when photographed, function as permanent reminders of fleetingness. Ekberg earned an MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago.
His most recent solo exhibition was at George Eastman Museum. Other solo exhibition venues include CLAMP, New York; De Soto Gallery, Los Angeles; Platform Gallery, Seattle; Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago; and Fotografiska Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden.
Ekberg has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Monson Arts, Playa, and Monhegan. He is the recipient of the Society for Photographic Education’s Imagemaker Award and the Tanne Foundation Award. His monograph The Life of Small Things was published in 2015.
His work is in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Eastman Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others.
